Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained in Hague protest

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police at a demonstration in the Hague, the Netherlands, on Saturday after attempting to block a major highway into the city calling for action to reverse climate change.

Thunberg was initially detained and held for a short time by local police along with other protesters, but was later detained a second time and driven off in a police van after she rejoined a small group of protesters who were blocking a different road leading to the railway station.

Before she was detained, Thunberg told journalists she was protesting to focus people's minds on the need to take action to save the planet from global warming because "the world is facing an existential crisis ... creating climate refugees".

Activists had been trying to block the nearby A12 highway. That road has been blocked for several hours dozens of times in recent months by activists demanding an end to all subsidies for the use of fossil fuels.

[Christofrrr]

staged. and not the 1st time she's been 'arrested' for protesting... 🙄

[Sirjohnwilliamuk]

Send her to protest in Ukraine or Gaza 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[eddiebear]

Shes so worried, shes smiling.
Wonder why she doesn't protest climate change at home this time of year. Too cold maybe?

[alienfrommarss]

lol, yet another staged "aresst" 😂😂😂😂

[edigabrieli]

Don't be fooled this is a Hollywood production.

[bigal]

Unemployed people got too much free time

[dorokaboroka]

she's a hypocrite . as long as she use oil derivate products, like clothes, phones, laptop etc and use plane for transportation, can't claim that she is an activist

[turdrhinofiend]

remember when she deleted the tweet that it would be "too late to do anything in 3 years" 5 years ago?

[russellwilliams]

Watching Thunberg is like watching candid camera

[godsstruggler]

All for the cameras and all for the naive and the lazy of thought.

[MarieSanders-ky]

Go to Gaza and protest, go to China, and go to Russia and protest. See how that turns out u want to do it, but u know the consequences they're some of the leading cause of climate change so weak

[donniey.]

It’s fake she was smiling the whole time

[thenbenagcz]

Send her to Russia so She can protest Oil 🛢 😂😂😂

[ste]

* The year is 2060

Greta: We only have 1 week left to save the planet

[themachine]

Existential crisis, my a*se.

Silly little fearmonger.

[Si-Toecutter]

I remember in the 80s when they were telling us acid rain would burn our skin if we went out in the rain by the year 2000

[proudpict]

Well she can’t play little kid anymore, lock her up.

[austindillon]

Do these people really think they are going to change the world by acting like little children?

[IanMcFerran]

Good! This time don't let her out.

[Joker-ywhl]

Why does this girl keep getting arrested?